Bobby Ryan's contract with the Ottawa Senators doesn't expire until after next season, however while recovering from season-ending sports hernia surgery the forward said that he hopes to stay with the team long-term and to possibly sign an extension before next season.
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According to NHL.com, Ryan who was selected No. 2 overall in the 2005 NHL Draft by the Anaheim Ducks before being dealt to the Senators last July, is enjoying his time in Ottawa and looking to stay after his contract expires, and the sides may discuss an extension this summer.
"I said it in Anaheim that when you get drafted by an organization or traded to an organization you want to reward that organization, you want to be part of that organization for a long deal and you want to take that team to new heights to be part of something special," Ryan said via NHL.com in his first comments since the March 27 surgery.
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He added: "That's how we felt when we were traded here and coming here. The organization is a first-class organization, they treat you like family. I think everyone in the coaching room genuinely cares about each and every individual, and that says a lot about the people they've put in place here. That's something you want to be around."
Ryan enjoyed the change of scenery in moving from Anaheim to Ottawa and said that his wife shares his enjoyment of the city with him and that he'd be willing to iron out an extension.
"I love it here. We [Ryan and fiancée Danielle Rhodes] love it here, more importantly. It has been a great change for us. When the time comes, if that's the route [general manager] Bryan [Murray] wants to go with to sit down and have a conversation, we'll certainly do that," he told NHL.com.
Ryan had 48 points in his first season with the Senators off of 23 goals and 25 assists before his season came to an early conclusion. The forward said he is doing well following surgery.
"I'm doing good," Ryan said per NHL.com. "Everything went well and I'm moving a little bit better each day. Obviously the first couple of days I didn't do much at all, but I'm starting to walk well and take stairs well and all that kind of stuff. It has been positive."
Ryan was hoping to prolong the surgery until after the season, but he aggravated the injury in a game against the Dallas Stars on March 22 which forced him to shut it down for the year.
"We hoped the Olympic break would really calm it down, but the opposite happened," he told NHL.com. "It was beyond what we thought, I just played through it. To me it meant more to play at that point, whatever what it was going to take. When I fell into the wall in Dallas,that was it."
The Senators (32-30-14, 78 points) are on the outside looking in on the Stanley Cup Playoffs and are seven points out of the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference while they would have to hop five teams to get to the spot. The team has made the playoffs the last two seasons.
In 448 games played in his career, Ryan has 337 points off of 170 goals and 167 assists.
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